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Your free example project brief

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This is a simple example of how you can brief a copywriter.
It’s not complex or supposed to be the best example of a copywriter brief in the business – instead, I wanted it to be easy to use and understand.

Feel free to make changes as you see fit.

Personally, I’d save it off with a different name and then clear all of the examples I have used in the boxes. More than once I have had clients brief me on their single blog entry and then also order a “White paper appx 2000 words on the environmental damage of the average printer cartridge.”

Remember also to include things like SEO elements that your SEO specialist has asked for including links and keywords. If you have a good copywriter these will be second nature to them.

I’m not precious about you removing my logo either. It’s fine. Let’s add a little free stuff into the world but in return, it would be really peachy if you could link to one of my articles.

And if you haven’t got a really good writer yet ….

OOOh also, sign up for my free mailing list. I’ll send out advance notice of my posts and resources to help you with your marketing.

Things that copywriters like

We like to know what you want.

The worst clients in the world are the ones that don’t tell you what they want, then complain that you haven’t delivered it!

For example, I had one recently that wanted me to link to a specific site but didn’t tell me until I had written and delivered the piece.

I’m good guys but I’m not a mind reader!

Anyway here’s a list of things that we like;

  • A good title – often a title will dictate the entire article
  • A tone of voice – how do you want it to sound to your reader?
  • A clear deadline – now don’t be ambitious. I can’t do you 5,000 words by tomorrow morning
  • Keywords – always helpful
  • Links -if you want a link then say where
  • Specific points you want to make – what do you really want to tell your reader
  • What you are looking to achieve – this helps us understand what we need to say
  • Any useful resource – if you have an industry link then that really helps

Now here’s the thing. You may not know all of these or you might be unsure of what you can ask for. For instance you may not know what is possible in terms of deadline.

I’m always more than happy to talk my clients through this. It makes my life so much easier and I am much more certain that they will get what they want.

I find that my clients will fall into two camps; those that know exactly what they want and those that just want some content and want me to do the rest. Either is good for me.

Anyway that’s enough rambling now. It’s 5.40 Friday PM so it’s home time.

Just to say – remember to subscribe and if you want to chat then contact me and we’ll have an e-coffee!

Writing a business blog? These are the 5 tools you absolutely need

I write blogs for businesses

If you are setting up a blog for your business then why make life difficult for yourself?

There are some epic tools out there that are either free or very cheap and they save you a whole heap of time and money.

So here are my five favourite tools that I swear by when I am writing business blogs for my clients. Check them out.

Tool #1 Ubersuggest

This is an epic tool that I use all the time.

Ubersuggest has a full suite of options to analyse your website and keywords but much more importantly it helps you analys YOUR COMPETITORS too!

Why is this important?

Well if you want to rank highly on search engines but your competitors are doing better than you then you can use Ubersuggest to find out why.

It’s also got the ability to track websites and keywords too so you can watch how things change over time.

Admittedly it takes a bit of time to learn how to use this properly but the investment is worth it and Neil Patel includes some absolutely epic videos and blogs that help you on your way.

The free version is pretty feature packed. Naturally as a professional writer I pay for the pro version but it’s not that expensive and it’s worth every penny in my opinion.

Find Ubersuggest here https://app.neilpatel.com/


Want to know how to go about writing a small business blog? Click the pic below!

I write blogs for businesses

Tool #2 – Google keyword planner

We all know how important keywords are to the success of our blogs so having a tool that helps you find the best keywords is essential.

Personally I use Ubersuggest to get me to a place where I understand the sort of things that my competitors are ranking for then use the keyword planner to give me stats on the various options and importantly suggest more keywords.

Much of this is available in Ubersuggest but I like using the Google console directly.

It’s not as massively use friendly as some of the tools here but it is effective and that’s what counts right?

This is an absolutely free tool that anyone with a GoogleAds account can use and you can find it by setting up your own GoogleAds account and searching for the keyword planner.

Tool #3 Answer the public

This is a pretty epic tool if you have a set of bare keywords but need to turn them into long-tail keywords for your blog titles.

You can take a simple keyword such as blog “writing for accountants” enter it into the search box and ATP will give you a full report which details the sorts of questions that people are asking about your subject.

Answering questions is a great way to drive traffic and increase your blog ranking on the major search engines so this is an absolute must.

In fact it is so good that you can devise almost an entire blog campaign based on a single report from this tool.

The basic version is feature rich and free although you are limited to numbers of searches per day. If you need more then the pro version is a bit pricey at $99 per month although if you are a professional blog writer then this will definitely be worth it for you.

Oh and I love the homepage videos they have going on too.

Find Answer the public here https://answerthepublic.com/


Struggling for subjects? Check out my post on how to choose what to write about by clicking the image below

How great content can boost your SMEs sales

Tool #4 – A great free pic site

Now look, pinching pictures off the web without permission is a bad thing to do so you have a couple of choices.

The first is to pay for a subscription to one of the stock image libraries like Alamy or Shutterstock which makes sense if you are producing a lot of content.

The other is to find one of the open licence libraries that have sprung up.

I use Pexels and Unsplash and between the two of them, they pretty much have everything I need.

The licence is open so you can use it on your blog with no legal problems and whilst the range of images is much smaller than the paid-for libraries both are still quite extensive.

You can find pexels here https://www.pexels.com/

and Unsplash is here https://unsplash.com/

Tool # 5 an awesome synonyms site

Seriously how many times have you found yourself searching for a multiple of ways to write the same word?

If you are writing your blog then I can promise there will be days when you need to find other methods of saying that something is AWESOME (Beautiful, Epic, Formidable, Impressive).

Finding a decent synonym/antonym site is a life-saver so I use thesaurus.com.

It’s no-frills, simple to use and produces a list of synonyms and antonyms with examples of usage.

It even speaks the word for you if you want!

Totally free you can find it here https://www.thesaurus.com/

Your business blog shouldn’t be hard work

So these are my recommendations if you want to write your own business blog.

They are generally free and work really well although to be fair you may need to invest a little bit of time to fully understand how to use them to their full potential.

I hope this post has been of use for you and if you have enjoyed it then please feel free to share and link as it’s all good.

And if you have decided that your time could be better spent elsewhere than writing your own business blog then why not give me a contact me and see how I can help you by writing your content for you?